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areyouinsane wrote:Bottom line is that this country's best days are behind it. Rather than law school, it'd be a swell idea to learn practical skills like carpentry, raising food, marksmanship, basic auto repair/mechanical skills, etc.

The disputes of the future will be settled with small arms and fists, not bales of cut n' pasted shitpaper "complaints."

Lol, what? So we're going to devolve into a third world country because our best days are behind us?

areyouinsane wrote:Bottom line is that this country's best days are behind it. Rather than law school, it'd be a swell idea to learn practical skills like carpentry, raising food, marksmanship, basic auto repair/mechanical skills, etc.

The disputes of the future will be settled with small arms and fists, not bales of cut n' pasted shitpaper "complaints."

Lol, what? So we're going to devolve into a third world country because our best days are behind us?

There are a vast number of successful people in countries where this is the case; people, and industries as well, at worst we will contract our economy, become smaller and more efficient, and everyone that thinks Walking Dead is imminent will probably be butthurt.

Could you elucidate further on that point? There wasn't a comparison to Saudi Arabia in that article. In fact, i didn't think there was anything overtly negative in that article. It's great that the upper crust are spending. That's one of the few things that might pump up the economy for sure.

billyez wrote:Could you elucidate further on that point? There wasn't a comparison to Saudi Arabia in that article. In fact, i didn't think there was anything overtly negative in that article. It's great that the upper crust are spending. That's one of the few things that might pump up the economy for sure.

Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer. Percentage of wealth owned by the rich in the United States is near a record high at the moment, comparable to the late 1800s. Maybe not bad news for those of us who land biglaw jobs, but bad news for the economy of the country as a whole (and in the long run stuff like this hurts everyone, just ask the Detroit suburbs).

areyouinsane wrote:Bottom line is that this country's best days are behind it. Rather than law school, it'd be a swell idea to learn practical skills like carpentry, raising food, marksmanship, basic auto repair/mechanical skills, etc.

The disputes of the future will be settled with small arms and fists, not bales of cut n' pasted shitpaper "complaints."

Lol, what? So we're going to devolve into a third world country because our best days are behind us?

There are a vast number of successful people in countries where this is the case; people, and industries as well, at worst we will contract our economy, become smaller and more efficient, and everyone that thinks Walking Dead is imminent will probably be butthurt.

billyez wrote:Could you elucidate further on that point? There wasn't a comparison to Saudi Arabia in that article. In fact, i didn't think there was anything overtly negative in that article. It's great that the upper crust are spending. That's one of the few things that might pump up the economy for sure.

I'm guessing the broader concern is that America's middle class has been hollowed out and what's left is a few extremely wealthy people and a lot of poor people.